This seminar was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, for professionals working in the cultural heritage space. Copyright restrictions are one of the greatest barriers to digitising heritage collections and putting them online and thus making them more accessible to the public. This seminar introduced participants to international case studies of institutions who are making their collections openly accessible, the legal and digital tools that they are making use of, as well as efforts to get the public involved in building online collections of heritage resources. Participants also shared their own methods for digitisation and discussed a pilot project in Johannesburg to bring major heritage institutions and the public together to popularise and share our history and culture online.

Catherine Kennedy is the head of the Struggles for Justice Programme at SAHA, the South African History Archive. The South African History Archive (SAHA) is an independent human rights archive dedicated to documenting and providing access to archival holdings that relate to past and contemporary struggles for justice in South Africa. The Struggles for Justice (SFJ) Programme focuses on collecting, preserving and creating access to archival materials held by SAHA, and promoting related archival collections across the region.


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Keywords: iHeritage; South Africa; OpenSA; SAHA; South African History Archive; Catherine Kennedy; Struggles for Justice

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